Boogie Chillen, S01E08, C2P3 (Wed, 5-8-13)

I guess Winifred got over her hatred for Adam; she's back working for him and even RUNNING for him.

Where is Adam going?

Miranda doesn't realize that her biological father raped Bianca; she thinks she "came from a cup" via a sperm donor. Bianca was telling her about how hard it was to have Erica Kane for a mother and how the tabloids ran stories about her being gay. Miranda seemed surprised. Now she's telling Celia about her origins. I think I see some research about her father in the offing. Kendall was on trial for murdering him, but then Bianca remembered that SHE had shot him. That was ALL over the news and tabloids. It shouldn't be too difficult for Miranda (or Celia) to google Bianca and find all sorts of info about her. I put the video on pause to write that, and the next thing out of Miranda's mouth was that she DOES wish she knew who he was or at least what he was like. Foreshadowing much?

Was David FARTING while he was talking to Cara?

How many female characters are on the show right now whose names begin with "C"? Off the top of my head, we have Cara, Celia and Cassandra (Kathy's name starts with a "K").

Ha! Did they just diss The Bachelor (aka, an ABC show)? LOVE IT!

I thought the name of the nail salon was Fancy Finger Nail Salon. The sign on the outside said New Image Nails. New ownership?

Dixie slams Adam for telling the comatose JAR that he's the biggest disappointment of his life. Yet there she is, dumping her frustration that David is back and now honing in on AJ. JAR may be in a coma, but that doesn't mean he can't hear things. WTF? So far he's heard that his father thinks he's worthless, and his arch-enemy is honing in on his son. He cannot even react to it. Adam did reconsider, and told JAR that he loves him.

Speaking of JAR, his face looks very well toned for an alcoholic with MANY severe injuries (not to mention cancer) in his history, who has been in a coma for 5 years. You'd think he would at least be slightly slack-jawed. His hair is also nicely done WITH some kind of product.

Robin "they must have had to degunk JAR's eyes & mouth several times a day" Coutellier

BC: Thu-Fri, 3/10-11/11

So, is Madison going to lose the baby or have other complications because of toxic Fusion products?  They certainly seem to be telegraphing that possibility.

Someone should point out to Madison that heartburn happens a lot higher up than one's uterus.  If you're feeling it there, it's on it's way DOWN, not UP.

A medical worker at the hospital ascertains that a patient had checked out, but flowers/a plant was delivered to him.  She suggests that someone else might need cheering up.  Here's an idea:  Call the patient's number and find out if they want it.  Or call the florist's number and ask them to redeliver it or have them ask what the sender would like to do.  If someone spent enough time and money to send something like that to a patient, it should not be up to the hospital to decide to give them to someone else.

I can't believe they STILL have that Fusion poster up of Randi holding a GUN.  That will go well with their toxic products. 

I have to reiterate that I HATE that black, black, black makeup on Amanda.  It's one thing to have it on Cara (which is bad enough), but we aren't really invested in her as a character yet.  We ARE invested in Amanda, though.  I think it makes her look much older and downright harsh.  She is so beautiful that it's a travesty to not only HIDE her beauty, but deface it, as if they used crude graffiti on her.

Robin "trust me, Amanda, you do NOT want to look any older than you are" Coutellier

BC - Fri, 1/7/11

If the doctor is worried about Kendall's blood pressure, why did Ryan and Greenlee bring Kendall sodium-laden Chinese food?

Why was Scott in the visitation room? He just wanders up to Madison and starts talking to her after her father refuses to see her. And why would Madison get as far as being IN the visitation room if the inmate won't see her -- doesn't that have to be cleared ahead of time? And why aren't there any other prisoners at Statesville in the same room with Scott? And why are all my sentences starting with the word "And"? It's not unusual for me, but I don't usually string them all in the same paragraph.

Oh, Liza, NO! Yeah, she's feeling very isolated and probably horny as hell, but her daughter's heartbroken boyfriend? It's not quite the same as when Marian was seducing Tad (who was Liza's first love and lover), toying with him, and paying him with money and gifts, but the ick factor is still WAY up there.

Why hasn't anyone beaten the crap out of Madison's father on a daily basis if he's talking to all the other inmates like they are worthless and beneath him? That is one pristine, well-ordered, well-behaved, gangless prison.

Wait a minute -- why would Zach's lawyer talk to RYAN about Zach's will and give Kendall's legal papers to him? WTF? The lawyer knows where Kendall is. I really hate the complete disregard for legal privacy and the way the men on the show treat women like children.

When Madison said she might find some guy to pretend he's the baby's father (semi-joking to get Greenlee off her back), how many of you immediately wondered if Tom Cudahey was available? My next thought, just looking at Greenlee's face as she pondered that, was that Scott will, of course, do exactly that, possibly because Greenlee will bribe him with a job or money when he gets out. And looky here, by the end of the episode, where is Greenlee? At the prison offering Scott a job and a beautiful blond.

Robin "you'd think they would at least stretch it out past the same episode" Coutellier

BC - Wed-Thu, 1/5-6/11

It's going to take me a while to get used to the new eBabe and new Scott. When they open a scene with the two of them in it, at first I don't know who they are. Scott is slightly easier to get used to, though.

Griffen tells Kendall that he's still not comfortable that she's still not at risk. She retorts that she's at risk of "COMPLETELY LOSING MY MIND!" And before I could even press pause to respond to it here, Griffen beat me to the punch and told her that, medically speaking, that probably happened long before she got into the hospital.

He's joking, but we all know how true that is.

Wow, Colby actually said "bye" at the end of Damon's phone call! It was probably due to real life habit. I wonder if they'll dock her pay because of it.

I know Colby was upset and deflecting, but I'm wondering if the mention of Lucretia fixing food and Asher offering her a protein bar was part of a setup for a diabetes storyline. I don't think we've had one since the early Cliff and Nina days.

Robin "if she can roll her eyes up into her head when she drops like Taylor Miller did as Nina, I'll be VERY impressed" Coutellier

BC - Fri, 11/12/10

Well, they certainly were telegraphing that Zach will be gone for a long time. I haven't been reading spoilers, but when they go through scrapbooks and show a lot of flashbacks and then someone goes on a sudden trip, we don't usually see them again for a long time, if ever. I'm guessing that hangup call Kendall got at the end of the show doesn't bode well for either of them.

Robin "the kids have been the source of a lot of ad-libbing by the adults in the last couple of days" Coutellier

BC - Thu, 9/16/10

The show started with Ryan remembering/dreaming about the fight preceding David's presumed death. Ryan was being tortured by David saying "Greenlee is mine, Greenlee is mine, Greenlee is mine", ad nauseam. I kept thinking that what SHOULD have been said and repeated was "What the hell kind of name is GREENlee??" [Yes, I know that Greenlee is the surname of Greenlee's maternal grandparents]

In a new role, the biggest since it portrayed Kendall's home pregnancy test, we have a character-prop labeled "Digitalis", making new appearances as often as possible when it really ought to stay hidden, especially when Greenlee, herself, says that her possessions are being searched for evidence.

That is one extremely unflattering top Bianca is wearing. Actually, it kind of looks like TWO unattractive (not to mention bland) tops, ripped up and loosely basted/glued to each other. What did the wardrobe dept do, tell her to twirl around the set while they threw tops at her, vowing to go with however they landed?

Tad says he can't imagine Ryan poisoning David, and he doesn't think Ryan can imagine it, either. Really? This from the man who buried someone alive and tortured him for, what, weeks, before he died in an "oopsy!" moment? Ryan has tied people up plenty of times, and wasn't he part of the group that strung up Richie with a noose and a chair (just to scare him)? Ryan was raised by a man who routinely beat his wife and children. He was a con-man. He's a man who drives motorcycles off of cliffs and callously lets people think he's dead. He was also the man who went to Fight Clubs and almost punched his wife with his clenched FIST! Being a soap hunk/"hero", he has moved from one violent storyline to another for years on end. Hell, he was beating the SHIT out of David minutes before David died! Ryan is a man of impulsive AND planned violence. He's lost his memory on several occasions and had a brain aneurysm. His brain is obviously f**ked up, probably in part due to all the blows to his head (fists, feet, bullets, rocks, pavement, boards and various handy instruments). Even titanium will break eventually. Poisoning should be a piece of cake (so to speak) for him, especially when it comes to protecting his lady-love (the aforementioned near-punchee).

Kendall says Ryan couldn't possibly have used Digitalis to poison David -- how would he even know what the drug would do? Uh, one word: I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T. Oh, looks like she figured that out by the end of the show (via his phone search history). Now the vial of "D" has fingerprints from, at a minimum, Greenlee and Kendall, both of whom are obvious potential suspects.

AJ got into a fight with another kid, who required 11 stitches. The principal discusses it with JAR who bribed him to let it go via an offer of new playground equipment, which makes me wonder why they are sending their precious little heir to a school that's so cash-strapped it can't even afford decent playground equipment. In today's politically correct, zero tolerance atmosphere, I'm surprised Jesse wasn't there arresting AJ.

Okay, THAT much invocation of Leo's name is a pretty good indication that Leo may show up again. And they aren't just showing LEO's photo -- it's a photo of Josh Duhamel playing Leo. I would LOVE to see him on the show again, but I have my doubts he'll return; they couldn't afford him anymore, and he's busy making several movies. However, I could easily see them pulling a JaNut and have him return after extensive plastic surgery, looking like a "new" man. If he does, that would make TWO of her husbands that have returned from the dead (THREE if we assume that David is not really dead and will eventually come back). Greenlee, herself, has returned from the dead. She's not a Black Widow so much as an out-of-control dead/not-dead remote control, not unlike a malfunctioning garage door opener.

Robin "whatever happened to her 'natural look' makeup campaign?" Coutellier

BC - Thu, 7/02/10

When Madison said she was distracted by a squirrel, how many of you looked around to see if Greenlee was nearby?

I thought it was funny when Tad told Damon that there was a reason they made it (it being the phone) cordless. It occurred to me that Damon has never lived in a world where a CORDED phone was the norm. The most old-fashioned phone he has probably ever seen in a home was probably big clunky cordless receivers with antennae that you had to pull out when you were on the phone. Cell phones, while not as prevalent as they are now, were becoming much more mainstream by the time he was 7-years old. I feel old.

Why didn't Amanda and Jake bring Trevor over to Tad's? You'd think that would be their first stop on the way back from New York.

Amanda tells Damon that she can't believe that Liza would stoop that low to try to seduce Damon (or at least set it up to look like they were having sex) so that Colby would find out and break up with him. Hello? Liza is the one who BLACKMAILED you guys (or at least Jake) into giving HER your baby when you gave him away, and faked a pregnancy. Uh, yeah, it's VERY believable that she would stoop that low.

Ryan said he was playing hooky so he could go running in the park because he couldn't let a day like "today" go to waste. Yeah, running in 100 degree heat and high humidity is MY idea of a perfect day -- NOT!

Gee, what are the odds Greenlee and David will stroll into a scene with Madison and Ryan in the park? Oh look there they are NOW!

Those were really large letters on Damon's cellphone. Wouldn't his buddies call him an old man if they saw letters that large? My cheapo Virgin Mobile phone has a pretty small display and I WISH I could get large letters on it, but then, I *AM* an old lady now. I hold things away from me to read, but I've pretty much run out of (short) arm. Hmmm, that's a question for you tall ones out there who are over 40: Do you get to go longer before HAVING to resort to reading glasses to read things, simply because your arms are longer?

When Greenlee and David work on building a house, will she have any flashbacks to Aidan building a house for her? Whatever happened with that? I know she was unhappy that he did it without consulting her, but as I recall, the building DID start on it. Maybe it was sold.

If Erica is going to take over Cortlandt Electronics (along with Caleb), will posters for electronics suddenly come out with alluring photos of Erica EVERYWHERE? Are they going to make pink and/or scented computers?

Robin "something tells me she doesn't know how to market to the nerd crowd" Coutellier

BC - Fri, 6/25/10

Oh PUH-LEEZE! If Angie thinks her "patient's life might depend on it" regarding the use of a specialized microscope to determine the cause of her maladies, why doesn't she just go where she CAN use one? Not only does she not have to obtain it at PVH, but I'm sure she has sources she can go to for favors. She was a well-known doctor in her own right long before she returned to PV and had never even MET David Hayward. I call BULLSHIT on her dilemma of getting access to the right kind of microscope.

I DO think Angie has to tread lightly to keep David from getting rid of her because of whatever is ailing her. OTOH, if this is affecting her perception of things, she should NOT be treating patients or making decisions that affect their care if she's not up to the task.

I also think that her exposure to the kid with the mysterious condition has something to do with her current symptoms. They telegraphed that loud and clear over the mask, and the subsequent blood on her cheek.

So Natalia made Detective? Again, BULLSHIT! She's only one year out of the academy, if THAT.

WTF? Angie is only just NOW connecting the dots re the kid in the ER, no mask and her current condition? David has brought it up times since then. How are we supposed to believe she's such a great diagnostician/infectious disease specialist when she can't put two and two together?

Robin "it makes you wonder what your OWN doctors are like when they are out of your sight" Coutellier

BC - Mon, 3/29/10

Uh, why did Ryan feel the need to jump into Liza's apt after Greenlee and inform Greenlee and David that the police were on their way to arrest David? If he had just stayed hidden and kept his yap shut, David and Greenlee might have been none the wiser. David was apprehended, anyway, but that was still a bonehead move on Ryan's part. How can Ryan POSSIBLY be such a phenomenal businessman when he doesn't even have enough self-control to do something as simple, logical and commonsensical as waiting a few minutes (or even SECONDS) before opening his big mouth and spilling the beans?

Randy feels perfectly comfortable hiring Damon, even after hearing he's a screw-up at the hospital and seeing how immature he is. She says that if Tad is willing to vouch for him, that's good enough for her. Now, she MAY be feeling like he should get a second chance, as she was given, but REALLY? Like there aren't HUNDREDS of better-qualified people who would be willing to work at Fusion, if only for the opportunity to see the great Erica Kane in person. She doesn't even know if he knows the alphabet because she hasn't asked him about any skills he may or may not have.

Brooke tells Adam that he has JAR and JAR is a WONDERFUL man [me: no he's not]. She says that's in part because Adam NEVER gave up on him [me: yes he did].

Did you catch the blatant advertising for Alice In Wonderland when Krystal made it clear that the video version they had in the house is perfectly adequate for the little girls? Damon talked about taking the girls to see the new 3-D movie, but Krystal doesn't trust him with the girls, so instead they will look for the OLD version. You know the animated one by Disney, OWNER of ABC. During a break, they showed a commercial for the Disney new "un-Anniversary" edition on DVD

It was speculated by a couple of people in R.A.T.S.A. that Damon might be illiterate. Perhaps. Or maybe he's dyslexic. He sure bolted out of Fusion when Randi started to show him about doing inventory. Was he confused by the words or the numbers? Ah, Damon answered the question before the end of the show. It's the numbers. I vote for dyslexia. So, will he get professional help, or will Randi volunteer to tutor him, resulting in he and Randi having an affair because Frankie will be spiraling out of control over the pain in his hands and the Vicadin in his mouth? Then again, they need to throw him and Colby together, so maybe Colby will be the one to tutor him. Then he can be at the mansion and Annie can slake her sexual thirsts with HIM instead of Scott. Plus he can steal more meds, etc. Maybe he'll steel someone's birth control pills and we'll see him sporting man-boobs just in time for summer.

Robin "it could happen" Coutellier

BC - Fri, 3/26/10

Why do they have Jake talking so much with his mouth full of food in the last couple of days? It's kind of disgusting. I KNOW Ruth taught him better than that. Ah, there's a clue -- Amanda is going to be portrayed as a glamorous and sophisticated supermodel, and he's going to portrayed as the uncouth and unsophisticated husband left in the dust.

How long after Amanda gets famous will it come out (if it ever does) that her mother is an infamous murderess who has to be locked up in a hospital for the criminally insane (in between escapes)?

David tells Liza that criminals come and go, but she may never get a chance to defend a David Hayward again. BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! Oh, there will be PLENTY of opportunities to do THAT!

Thank GOD they finally found the BJ's set after the move to LA (maybe they finally paid the storage locker bill)! I am so sick of so many inappropriate interactions at Fusion.

Greenlee directs Natalia during a test photo shoot. She tells Natalia to go over to the roulette table, but stay away from the wheel, itself, because the chips, the stakes and the glamor mean NOTHING to her. If none of that means anything to Natalia as the face of Fusion's natural beauty products, then WTF is she doing in a casino in the first place? It's hardly the place where wood nymphs hang out looking for their true loves.

Robin "did you catch the raccoon eyes on one of the models?" Coutellier

BC - Mon, 2/22/10

Greenlee fainted and then, perhaps, was sleeping. So why is she semi-reclining in a chaise when there's a bed RIGHT THERE? And then she falls asleep that way AGAIN. As someone with long-term back problems, it hurts me to even THINK of falling asleep that way.

Frankie is surprised that someone with an AORTIC ANEURYSM died before getting surgery. I know that some AAs can wait a while to see if they'll grow, but he was told that the man needed surgery had to be transferred immediately if the hospital wouldn't cover him without insurance (since when has anyone ever needed insurance at PVH?). Angie is in deep shit NOW. Foreshadow much?

Now Ryan realizes that Greenlee needs space and he's not going to push her anymore. How noble of him. Hasn't he been down this same road before, after he faked his death to get away from Greenlee and any prospect of having children?

Robin "here's an idea: kill off Ryan & fake that he's alive" Coutellier

BC - Thur & Fri, 12/3-4/09

What did Ryan do, stuff a sock down his pants? Again?

OH NO! Joe is saying goodbye! He's talking about retiring and he and Ruth leaving town. Joe wants Jake to take up where he left off. He's passing the torch. Gee, foreshadowing much? I guess we know who WON'T be moving Los Angeles with AMC.

JAR says he's going to wait until AFTER the trial to start chemo. He figures the trial will only take about two weeks. Only in PV! Two weeks? Maybe. They seem to be forgetting the months and months and months of preparation and court schedule backups that happen BEFORE that two weeks. But wait -- the trial is TOMORROW! Adam and Scott were charged with the crime basically "yesterday" and TOMORROW is the trial? It's taking me longer than that to watch a handful of episodes of my soap!

And here's EXACTLY what I was talking about. Liza is representing Adam, Scott AND Annie at the same time. Now she is advising one to throw the other one under the bus (Scott vs Annie). She can only protect ONE client involving the same crime and anything else is a HUGE conflict of interest! Talk about appeal issues! Of course, in the real world, she wouldn't have been allowed to do it at all.

Zach's casino in PV is called Seasons East.

Robin "will my sinus infection EVER end?" Coutellier

BC - Mon, 10/12/09

Here's a partial address of the penthouse:

x50 Oakview Lane

I couldn't hear what the first digit (or possibly first 2 digits) were and it wasn't shown in closed-captioning.

Kendall promises Zach that she will always think before she acts. I'm sure a collective "HA!" went up among the people watching it. There was a dramatic pause and, seeing the look on Zach's face, she amended to to promising to TRY to think before she acts and not to act so impulsively. HA!

I DO wish they'd stop referring to Emma as "that little girl" or "that girl". She has a NAME, you know!

Scott guesses that Annie never WAS going to sell Emma out for killing Stuart -- she was just doing that to throw Ryan off. He then asks who killed Stuart if Emma didn't. Annie looks meaningfully at him and suggests they go for a walk because he needs to know the truth. I wouldn't do that if I were him.

I see Scott is still breathing and conscious, so he obviously survived their walk. I'm guessing that Annie told Scott that ADAM killed Stuart, based on the fact that the only thing we heard her say to him was at the end of their conversation when she says: "You understand now, don't you? Why it HAS to be this way?" Scott is certainly acting as if she told him that Adam did it. I guess we'll find out during November sweeps.

Wait a sec -- are they going to do the unthinkable and say that Stuart shot HIMSELF? We heard Adam's voice going over all the reasons he had to die, making us think that, in his addled state, he shot Stuart, thinking he was shooting himself or at least offering himself up to be shot. What if Stuart shot himself as a means of saving his brother? It doesn't seem likely, logistically. It is DEFINITELY out-of-character for Stuart to have done that (taking his own life), but few of the characters are acting in-character anymore anyway -- they do whatever the writers can think of to advance a plot; personality, history and values be damned.

Why would Jake take his surgical gown off in the waiting room? Wouldn't it have Emma's blood all over it? If they were drilling holes in Emma's head to relieve the pressure, then the blood would probably spurt out like the contents of a popped pimple. Yup, a bloody gown is just what terrified parents need to see. Not that it DID have any visible blood on it, but still ...

Robin "does Emma have bald spots now?" Coutellier

BC - Tue, 8/18/09

OT/TAN: I'm only just now watching Tuesday's show. Moving is exhausting and time-consuming! The big move happens on 8/29, so things should settle down after that. I'll even have access to SoapNet!

Okay, I have to say it -- that hairstyle is MUCH too young-looking for Angie. It's hard to take her seriously when she looks like that. She looks like she's on her way to the airport to welcome the Beatles to the States.

So Randi took the baby. That's such a trite storyline. Woman loses baby, woman steals baby. At least she doesn't seem to be so deluded that she thinks the baby is hers, although she does seem to think that finders-keepers applies. The poor baby must be stinky, diaper-rash-plagued and starving by NOW.

It's the second half of August -- why is there a fire in the Slater fireplace? And why are there lit candles all over the place? It's not even nighttime. The romance of fire kind of loses its sizzle in the daytime, especially in the dog days of summer. The romance will fizzle out even quicker if Spike wakes up and wanders into the living room to take a closer look at the pretty flaming candles.

Uh, don't vaccinations have to be done at least 48 hours before any exposure to a virus? Erica won't have any time to build up immunity if she's leaving for Africa in a few hours.

Natalia's reaction to finding out that Randi "found" the baby is pretty underwhelming. She's acting like Randi found a pair of shoes, was wearing them and Natalia's saying: "Girl, you canNOT wear THOSE shoes with THOSE pants." Except she says it with less concern than she would if there really WERE clashing shoes involved.

Whoever filmed and/or edited the NYC scenes should be FIRED. They couldn't keep anything in focus for more than a half a second and everything was sped up and wildly swinging from one shot to the next. Yeah, I know it's supposed to be artsy and light-hearted, but it's making me dizzy. And they keep shifting from day to night to day and back to night again. A good ending to the scene would have been for the guy pedaling the cart that was hauling them around to have let loose a REALLY loud and pungent fart. Honestly, those shots were worthy of an Ed Wood movie.

If Randi believes that she lost her baby because she did bad things in the past, what does she think will happen to THIS baby now that she's picked it up?

Oh great -- here comes another romance novel from Kendall.

My sister, Sharlene, said:
"OMG ... Ryan just kissed Erica ... that would be like me making out with my son-in-law ... EEWWWWWW!!! Aside from the yuck factor, Ryan and Erica scenes around New York doing fun stuff is a bit sad, considering they are moving the show to California. Once again I have to say that Kendall is too dumb to live ... Damn, she's such an impulsive IDIOT!!!!! Time for another coma ... PLEASE!" I agree with my sister on all counts!

Erica said she's wondering if she'll be different somehow when she gets back. Was that supposed to be a veiled allusion to the big move to California? Is Susan Lucci staying in NY? Will Erica be different when she returns from Africa because someone ELSE will be playing Erica?

Here's a possible scenario. Perhaps what will happen is that she'll be riding an elephant for a publicity shot, but the elephant goes rogue and thunders off before anyone can stop it, with Erica clinging to whatever one clings while on top of a rogue African elephant. Months later she will finally be rescued from a group of chimpanzees that allowed her to stay amongst them for the duration. The female champanzees will be wearing grass skirts and halter-tops made from vines and leaves. They'll have blossoms in their head hair and will have learned to eat with their pinkies stuck up in the air. A few of them will have learned to make stiletto heels with twigs, leaves and vines and can be seen gamely trying to figure out how to walk on them using their feet AND hands. When the males come sniffing around, the females all start to act coy and begin doing simian simper-dips. The males just roll around in the dirt, bonk themselves on the head, leer at the females and yank them around, and puff out their chests, pounding on them and each other, which is kind of what the males in PV do on a daily basis, anyway.

Erica, in the meantime, will have learned to climb trees without breaking her nails and become an excellent groomer. She never WAS one to eat much, so she willingly gave away the nits, fleas, lice and assorted vermin that she finds in their fur, which was an excellent way to form bonds of friendship and curry (so to speak) favor with desired allies -- this also helped to keep her from being beaten to a bloody pulp. She was already well-versed in the art of throwing hissy fits and flinging things around when she was mad. Her close association with Ryan and his chimpanzee mannerisms had laid the groundwork for her to look speculatively at the alpha male of the troupe. In the meantime, she tried to sabotage the alpha female in whatever ways she could, mostly by trying to get the other females to turn against the alpha female by telling lies about her as she groomed the others and gave them little tiny braids. Getting rid of bodily wastes was not an issue for Erica, and it never was -- in all her life she's only used bathrooms for taking baths, catfights and getting stabbed, after all. Oh, she still had catfights and got stabbed, but bathing didn't happen as often. She will also be sporting some bitemarks, a torn ear and some bald patches, which would lead the way for plastic surgery so that when they put another actress in the role, we'll be EXPECTING her to look different. Dr. Fashionella, alas, is not available to restore her face to exactly the way it was before her sojourn with the chimps, having met a similar fate in the rain forests of Brazil.

I'd say Erica would just be dragged off by lions, but lions like a little MEAT on bones, and I'm pretty sure lions would HATE eating silicone even if they DID bother with her as a snack. I can just hear them now: "PTUI! Ugh! I KNEW I shouldn't have tried this appetizer! I can't BELIEVE the things they put into the food supply these days! I'm telling you, Ralph, do NOT eat that part! Convenience foods can taste so plastic-y sometimes!"

Robin "channeling Gary Larson" Coutellier

BC - Thu, 6/18/09

Ryan says he came to the Slater house because Emma wanted to see Spike and Ian. At NIGHT? Here's the thing, Ryan: She's the child and YOU are the adult. You ARE allowed to say NO sometimes and you can justify it with a "because I SAID so". He doesn't even bother to ask Kendall and/or Zach if it's okay to come over with Emma. Self-entitled much?

David sure sobered up FAST! All the people in PV go from slobbering drunk to completely sober within mere MINUTES.

Okay, that's it! I'm tired of being coy about it. Greenlee, Greenlee, GREENLEE!!! Geeze foreshadow much?

Robin "do Emma, Spike or Ian ever throw screaming tantrums?" Coutellier

BC - Thu, 6/11/09

Hearing problem or not, for a 3-yr-old, Spike sure doesn't talk very well. The triplets who play him turned 3 a couple of months ago, which surprises me, because they all seem a lot younger.

Jake mused about what Paulo would say to Consuela on their telenovela. Nothing. Her name is Consue-LO. I'm guessing Paulo is the one who crashed the wedding of Marco and Consuelo.

I am just REALLY uncomfortable with this whole storyline of Amanda thinking that she has to give away her baby because of David. Yeah, he's going to hound her and her child for the rest of their lives, but what if she gives the baby away and then David dies 2 years later? Then she'll have given her beloved baby away for nothing! All she REALLY has to do is tell her mother about it (assuming they didn't kill off JaNut and forget to tell us about it, which they seemed to be hinting at the other day). JaNut WOULD find a way to permanently solve the problem, rest assured. Aidan would probably be willing to help her escape. He seems to have an issue with boundaries, after all. And Amanda STILL hasn't had any kind of DNA test to indicate that the baby even IS David's biological child. David is right -- she IS stupid.

Why didn't Ryan STAY with Emma for her visit with Angie at the hospital? Most parents stay with their children for things like that; they don't use the DOCTORS as babysitters. What if Angie had to rush away for a code red or something? Ryan is an incredibly self-centered, neglectful father! He always HAS been ever since he found out he WAS a father. His initial instincts about having children and being a bad father were on target. He may not be physically abusing them, but he's a lousy father, nonetheless.

WTF is Kendall wearing a cocktail dress and a necklace that goes clear down to her BELLY to visit with her toddler who just had heart surgery ... again?

Jack's looking mighty orange. They need to adjust the color of his tanning spray.

I call B-O-G-U-S on Opal having all of Tad's old toys in a storage locker. He didn't specify whether it was Ruth or Opal that kept them, but I'm pretty sure he meant Opal. Ruth and Joe would have stored that stuff at home and lost it all in the tornado several years back unless it had all been in the basement. Opal and Jenny came to town on a bus with almost NOTHING but the clothes on their backs. There is NO WAY Opal would have been paying for a storage locker all these years. She might have been able to afford it after marrying Palmer or Mr. Purdy but NOT before then. Her worldly goods would have been LONG gone, and she would never have been able to afford most of that stuff in the first place when Tad OR Jenny were kids.

And speaking of those toys, was that toy gun a foreshadowing or just part of the writers' continuing fascination with showing guns on the show in whatever way and as often as they possibly can?

That's a MIGHTY clean and dry baby for being fresh out of the womb. That had to hurt! Amanda might want to consider using a lubricant in the future.

So, how will they find out that Jake is really the father of Amanda's baby (assuming that he IS)? Will they go the baby-needs-a-transfusion route? How about a birthmark? Maybe it will need a bone-marrow transplant. Maybe Joe or Ruth will say that the baby is the IMAGE of Jake when he was a baby. Or maybe they'll just figure out that there's no way that baby arrived "early". Then again, Jake didn't seem to notice it. David is right -- Jake IS stupid.

Robin "will they call the baby 'Trevor'?" Coutellier

BC - Thu, 5/14/09

Marissa to Kyrstal: "I just came to give you something."
Me: "A punch in the mouth?"

It really bugs me when people who are supposed to love their child or grandchild constantly refer to it as the child, the boy, that child, etc. At least Erica has the excuse of NEVER saying or allowing anyone else to say the G word -- she's vain. But Adam is KNOWN as Grandpa, as is David. They talk about Junior Junior as if he's a THING or someone's else's kin, not their own. The least they could do is refer to him by NAME or say OUR little boy, etc.

Adam puts a loaded gun in a drawer. After Junior Junior was TAKEN AWAY when he drank the scotch that JAR left out on top of the very same cabinet, Adam still just sticks the gun there without a second thought. Nice. Foreshadow much? I did see JAR use a key on it, at least, but that's hardly the best place for it. It may be handy to shoot Adam's plethora of enemies as they all barge in en masse to kill him, but it's STILL too easy for Junior Junior to get to. Or Emma, for that matter, since she's suddenly coming over to play with him now.

There was another major foreshadowing, too, but I'm not going into detail about it just now. Actually, the entire show was pretty much foreshadowing, but at least ONE of those foreshadowings will bear fruit.

Krystal sure knows how to dress to kill, doesn't she? The neckline AND the backline on that top plunge pretty far -- far enough that the skin UNDER her bustline shows in the front. She could probably wear that top facing either way and no one would be able to tell the difference.

Guns, guns, everywhere guns. I'm wondering if a whole bunch of people are going to shoot at Adam at the exact same time. Then they can all wipe their guns of handprints, throw them into a pile onto the floor and make a run for it. A bullet can be matched to a specific gun, but if none of the guns are registered to any of the people shooting, there are no prints, and everyone shoots at the same time, there would be no way to know which gun was in the hand of which person.

Is Ian really dead, or will they be able to revive him? Kendall nodded at Zach to indicate she would carry through on their pact; did she then LEAVE little Ian to go kill Adam??? It wasn't clear if she was doing that or going back into Ian's room. Was it just to get the car keys? If your baby dies, you don't go running out that very second to wreak revenge. You STAY there with your baby. You hold him close to say goodbye. You stroke his little face, and pat his little bottom, and hold his little hand, and pour your love and grief out to him! He'll be taken away after a while and this is going to be your LAST CHANCE to cuddle him and be with him before they do that. He's still WARM for God's sake!!! There's time enough for revenge LATER. Zach DID run out to kill Adam (only to be stopped by Jesse).

I don't understand this at ALL!!! I absolutely understand wanting to get revenge, but running out to kill someone the very SECOND your baby's heart stops just BOGGLES MY MIND!!! It happened so fast that, for all they know, it was a wonky heart monitor! It makes the hatred and revenge toward Adam seem to be MUCH more important to them than their OWN BABY. I could almost accept Kendall doing that -- she never did seem to bond with Ian, and being comforted by Ryan might be more important to her. Zach OTOH bonded very strongly with Ian from the moment Ian was born. Even as angry and vengeful as he is, the REAL Zach would have stayed with the baby not only when he died, but probably until Zach or Ian was dragged away by force, not unlike how Rhett Butler reacted when Bonnie Blue Butler died in Gone With The Wind. Then again, Rhett DID take time out at first to shoot the pony.

Question: What kind of heartless, clueless writers kill off a BABY and dismiss it within 30 seconds?

Answer: The Chuck Pratt kind.

Robin "DISGUSTED!" Coutellier